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by Michael Powers

Monday, December 15, 2008

Questions to distract you from Holiday Stress

(This is what might happen to you if you read this)

I have decided to write a list of questions for my readers to answer. It could provide a little break and distraction from christmas shopping, finals, work, or anything else that you'd rather not do or think to much about. Here they are:

Would you rather have cold hands and warm feet or warm feet and cold hands?

Which to you like to watch more, rain or snow?

Which do you like to hear more, rain or snow?

Where is your happy place?

What time is it?

What is your favorite Christmas song?

What is your favorite Christmas singer?

Would you rather die choking on dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

How many times have you injured yourself while decorating for Christmas?

What is the capital of Uzbekistan?

Did you know that mistletoe is actually poisonous?

Have you ever eaten Santa's cookies before he got there?

What did Santa do to you when he found out you ate his cookies (ignore if you're a good kid)?

How many pairs of slippers do you own?

Have you ever found coal inside them?

Did you ever want a power wheel for 5 straight years and never get one from Santa?

Do you wish you could have snow and warm weather at the same time (If yes, then I can recommend a few cities near volcanoes)?

1. Watch snow. No contest.2. Listen to snow, too -- it's the softness that is beautiful, otherwordly. It still makes _some_ noise. Believe me, as a resident of both Williamstown, MA and Ann Arbor, MI, I have known the sound of snow.

3. Best carol -- "Once in Royal David's City," or "The Holly Bears a Berry."4. Best caroller -- I will say it's the forces of Bing Crosby and David Bowie -- combined!5. Tashkent.6. In response to nothing in particular: I wonder if Santa ever says, "Man, this Christmas, I want someone to get ME something: bitches." Don't think the Missus would be too happy.

6. Oh dang. This is like trying to pick a favorite child.... Ahem! Answering the question: I'll Be Home for Christmas.

7. Frank Sinatra is the man, with Dean Martin and Bing Crosby coming in as a close 2nd and 3rd places.

8. Dark Chocolate is the healthier* alternative. But milk chocolate is softer and will melt faster. *as healthy as chocolate gets

9. Multiple times. I'm kind of a spaz. Next question.

10. Tashkent. I cheated. It ended up being educational.Consequently, I have put that on my list of places to visit in my lifetime.

11. Yes I do. What kind of message is that sending to our future generations? ;D

12. As a kid, no way. Within the past 5 years, there has been at least one cookie missing, but not enough to look suspicious.

13. I winked at him and he let me eat it. (grin)

14. Two: my regulars and a loaner pair.

15. Nope.

16. Ouch. Sounds like emotional childhood baggage. Actually yes, I secretly wanted the Barbie jeep(in any color other than pink.) I knew I would never get one, so it never even made it on my list.

17. If we could have snow on the houses, lawns and trees without the mess and clear, dry roads, then yes. For some reason, the words artificial and plastic come to mind. Not such a fan. I've had both a green Christmas and a white Christmas and I prefer a white one. It's more magical.

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Michael Powers is a fairly cultured American with an eye for seriousness, but willing to entertain the occasional dabble into the surreal and the inane. His writing focuses on news, random stories, politics, and social issues with his own brand of cynicism, but always with a humorous or optimistic outlook.